CAIRO, ILL.   Since the last date I have been to busy to attempt anything in the way of writing. The Board of Trade Regiment was mustered in...

Was again made "officer of the day." Have ridden on horseback about twenty-five miles today and feel very tired. Had a scare in ca...

January 2, 1862. We've waited patiently until after New Year for the box of provisions, and nary box yet. Have given it up for a go...

Cape Girardeau , November 11, 1861. We have just arrived here after a week's absence from any sign of civilized life. Saturday the ...

Bird's Point , October 10, 1861. I have just finished a dinner of cider, cake, bread, butter, etc. We have just been paid off and o...

Bird's Point , October 2, '61. Just at noon yesterday orders came to strike tents and in an hour we were under way and have com...

The long roll sounded about half-past seven in the morning, and at once we formed a line of battle on the regimental parade ground. At abou...

CAIRO, 2. P. M. April 2. – Brig. Gen. John A. Logan has so far recovered from his wound received at Fort Donelson as to be able to rejoin h...

Corinth, Mississippi, June 19, 1862. YOUR letter of the 8th inst., addressed to me at Covington, Ky., has just reached me. At the tim...

GEN. WALLACE. None knew him but to love him, None named him but to praise. Halleck . WILLIAM HENRY LAMB [sic] WALLACE was born...

Was born in Washington County, Pa., April 29, 1833. Enlisted as a private in Company I of the 11th Illinois Infantry, August 14, 1861, and...

SOURCE:  Civil War And Later Veterans Pension Index at  Fold3.com

The following Private letter, written by a former attaché of the New York Post Office, presents another side of the victory gained at Fort...

FORT DONELSON, NEAR DOVER Stewart County, Tenn., Feb. 19, 1862 MR. EDITOR:   A kind Providence has spared me to fulfill my promise of writi...

3,000 Rebel Prisoners ask to be Armed and Enrolled in the Armies of the Union. Clarksville Evacuated. WHITE FLAGS FLYING AT NASHVILLE. TE...

Two more Rebel Regiments, Captured, &c., &c. FT. DONALSON [sic], Feb. 19, via CAIRO. – Two more regiments were captured to-day, eas...

LA SALLE, Ill., Feb. 18. – A large meeting was held in this place to-night at Cady’s Hall to take action towards the relief of our wounded a...

This officer who fell so nobly fighting in behalf of his country in the battle at Pittsburg, was in the Mexican war.  He enlisted as a priva...

Special to Chicago Journal. CAIRO, April 2. The most terrible tornado that has visited this locality for several years, came upon us at 3 ...

A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune gives the following incidents, etc., as occurring at the battle of Fort Donelson: One of the boys o...